The Philippines and New Zealand strengthened defence ties with the signing of a landmark troop pact on Wednesday, opening the ...

The Philippines has signed a military pact with New Zealand, allowing their forces to hold joint exercises as Manila ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said that his country and the Philippines would start talks on two proposed defense ...

Chinese coastguard officers have seized a strip of land in the South China Sea in a major escalation of a territorial dispute ...

The standoff over Sandy Cay, which lies close to military outposts built by both Beijing and Manila, was the latest between ...

The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported, in an escalation of a ...

China and Malaysia said they would seek to peacefully resolve disputes in the South China Sea and pledged support for the ...

China claims more than 90 percent of the South China Sea, asserting historical rights ... Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Taiwan. An international arbitral court issued a 2016 ruling largely ...

China’s claims to the South China Sea are a point of contention with both Vietnam and Malaysia. Anwar vowed last September that Malaysia will not bow to demands by China to stop its oil and gas ...

China and the Philippines accused each other on Tuesday of dangerous manoeuvres in a hotly disputed shoal in the South China ...

It shares US concerns about Beijing’s increasing assertiveness in the contested South China Sea, but it also has close economic ties with China. Xi will then visit Malaysia from Tuesday to Thursday.

While Taiwan considers itself an independent, sovereign nation, it is still officially recognized as part of China under the "One China" policy — a stance maintained by the United Nations ...